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Rails is a full-stack framework.It ships with all the tools needed to build amazing web apps on both the front and back end.
Rendering HTML templates, updating databases, sending and receiving emails, maintaining live pages via WebSockets, enqueuing jobs for asynchronous work, storing uploads in the cloud, providing solid security protections for common attacks. Rails does it all and so much more.
app/models/article.rb
classArticle<ApplicationRecord
belongs_to:author,default:->{Current.user}
has_many:comments
has_one_attached:cover_image
has_rich_text:content,encrypted:true
enumstatus:%i[ drafted published ]
scope:recent,->{order(created_at::desc).limit(25)}
after_save_commit:deliver_later,if::published?
defbyline
"Written by#{author.name}on#{created_at.to_s(:short)}"
end
defdeliver_later
Article::DeliveryJob.perform_later(self)
end
endActive Records make modeling easy.
Databases come to life with business logic encapsulated in rich objects. Modeling associations between tables, providing callbacks when saved, encrypting sensitive data seamlessly, and expressing SQL queries beautifully.
app/controllers/articles_controller.rb
classArticlesController<ApplicationController
defindex
@articles=Article.recent
end
defshow
@article=Article.find(params[:id])
fresh_whenetag:@article
end
defcreate
article=Article.create!(article_params)
redirect_toarticle
end
private
defarticle_params
params.require(:article).permit(:title,:content)
end
endAction Controllers handle all requests.
Controllers expose the domain model to the web, process incoming parameters, set caching headers, and render templates, responding with either HTML or JSON.
app/views/articles/show.html.erb
<h1><%=@article.title%></h1>
<%=image_tag@article.cover_image.url%>
<p><%=@article.content%></p>
<%=link_to"Edit",edit_article_path(@article)ifCurrent.user.admin?%>Action Views mix Ruby and HTML.
Templates can use the full versatility of Ruby, excessive code is extracted into helpers, and the domain model is used directly and interwoven with the HTML.
config/routes.rb
Rails.application.routes.drawdo
resources:articlesdo# /articles, /articles/1
resources:comments# /articles/1/comments, /comments/1
end
rootto:"articles#index"# /
endAction Dispatch routes URLs.
Configure how URLs connect to the controllers using the routing domain language. Routes expose the bundle of actions that go together as a resource: index, show, new, create, edit, update, destroy.
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